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Dance

The World’s Oldest Language of Movement

In this shared reflection, Sneha Das, Aishmita Manna and Vedanta Dasgupta return to the restless body as the first language of faith, where, as William Blake reminds us, without contraries there is no progression, and movement holds ecstasy and dissent, surrender and subversion, crossing the boundaries between self and other, devotion and defiance, masculine and feminine, suggesting that long before we learned to divide the world, we had already begun to move through it.

Glorious India~II

Even after the decline of the golden period of the Gupta empire, great works of art, architecture and culture continued to flourish at four corners of India from the sixth century till the thirteenth century when invaders consolidated their rule on the holy land and stopped the festival of indigenous arts and cultural activities

Linking up with heritage through dance

Dancers Srudhi KV, Mini Somakumar, Dr. Anupama Kumar, SwetapadmaMishra, Madhurima Chakraborty, Rajitha Shekhar and Gayatri Atchanta were all senior disciples of Madhulita who performed the dance.

Nora Fatehi recalls her early days in the floor of ‘IBD 2’

"I am so proud of you for representing belly dance the way you do. I think you should win 'India's Best Dancer' because even though belly dance has existed for years, it hasn't gotten the respect and international recognition it deserves. You winning this show will do that"